Essays about: "Institutional actors"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 347 essays containing the words Institutional actors.
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1. We Didn’t Start the Fire… Right? - How external support affects the use of violence in political movements
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Abstract: What explains the use of violence in extra-institutional political campaigns? Domestic groups challenge host states using both nonviolent and violent tactics. While Gandhi’s struggle for India’s independence is perhaps the most famous example of nonviolence, many of today’s bloody civil wars also started out as nonviolent movements. READ MORE
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2. Voices from Rwanda
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This thesis seeks to explore how the institutional environment in which an organization operates affects the work with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in developing countries. The study has been conducted as a case study in Rwanda, collecting data using a qualitative study with in-depth interviews with three core groups: local entrepreneurs, foreign investors, and government organizations. READ MORE
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3. Structural Hybridization and Dual Roles: A Case Study of Coexisting Logics in a Government Agency
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The area of coexisting institutional logics has been extensively discussed at the field and organizational level. However, there is currently a lack of research on the role of individual actors in creating and sustaining organizational hybrids, e.g. organizations operating under contradicting logics. READ MORE
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4. Breaking the Status Quo? - An Analysis of Sustainability Managers' Change Efforts
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Societal expectations towards corporations to include social, environmental and ethical considerations have grown in importance, and corporations largely depend on so-called sustainability managers to help them meet these expectations. This thesis provides one of the first studies into how sustainability managers work and asks: how do sustainability managers work to change their organisation for a more sustainable future? Through interviews with 18 senior sustainability managers and an analysis of the empirical findings through institutional entrepreneurship and institutional logics theory, this study identifies sustainability managers as individual actors who adopt strategic approaches and work practices similar to institutional entrepreneurs and shows their efforts to institutionalise sustainability by hybridising it with the perceived dominant market logic and by establishing legitimacy. READ MORE
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5. ”There is a need for people who can provide a transition”: A case study of how educational activities empower actors to engage in a local transition of the waste system on Bornholm, Denmark
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Sustainable waste management is a complex task within environmental governance, and municipalities play a key role in governing a transition of the waste system toward prevention and reuse. This calls for an enhanced understanding of local capacities for change, and therefore this thesis adopts a socio-institutional perspective on the power of actors to influence local transitions. READ MORE
